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The Boarding School

Chapter 8 No.8

Word Count: 934    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

mpanied Miss Cotton to spend a month with her parents. Elizabeth, however, would not accept any invitation. Mrs. Adair was

all our friends," she said to her dau

value a comfortable home. How quiet we are this evening! and what a cheerful,

ur reasons for re

n one's ears! To-night I shall go to rest without the fear of being disturbed 'with

lfilment of our wishes in this world. In all things it may be said, 'we look through a glass darkly.' But no more on this head: you have reason, and you must exer

with Colonel Vincent's family. You

ear mother

I have another plan in view. I know that Miss Damer is very uncomfortably situated

every direction, carrying trunks, chairs and sofas. Elizabeth inquired for Miss Damer: and was answered by a footman in a very surly tone, that "he knew nothing of her." An elderly, respectable looking female now stepped forward, and begged Elizabeth would follow her. They passed through two empty apartments, and she then gently opened a door into a room

used this strange confusion? But I beg your pardon," perceiving the distress of her pupil, "I

heard of our tr

moment, Elizabeth dropped upon one knee, opened the band-box, took out a bonnet,

and as she tied the strings of her bonnet, exclaimed, "Now we shall do; but we must go immediately, for the days are

ut I am so confused, I scarcely know what I am doing-only that I am going whe

er, come in one of the morni

rget their own. Never mind if they do: there is an eye over you in all your ways. And there is a death-bed, too," said she in a low voice; "then conscience will be heard-there is no saying, I won't hear; no creeping into corners, and running away. When the arms drop, and the head is w

to co

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